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What’s behind inequality?
Power.
Yes, which is employed to manipulate the political process such that Income Disparity - due to lax upper-income taxation - continues to be applied in the US.
That fact is inescapable. Until Americans have a "reawakening" to the evidence that they are being manipulated for the benefit of the super-rich. Which is the very same kind of "social condition" that sparked the Bolshevik Revolution a century ago in Russia.
Of course, if Americans want to allow the super-rich to get even richer and that a non-insignificant portion of their fellow Yanks live in miserable conditions below the Poverty Threshold, then that is their business.
But as a Yank observing the situation from abroad, in a country that has both a National Healthcare and National Post-secondary Education, the differences cannot be more glaring as regards outcomes. The French (and Europeans in general) are living longer lives than we Yanks in the US (by four years) because of their National Healthcare Systems.
If Americans wish to die younger, well, that's their decision ...
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